Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE CALL IS SENT OUT For The National Repub-
 Iiean Convention. UNION IN CHRISTIAN WORK. !. pr. Burchard At The White
 House. EUROPE UNEASY OVER RUSSIA. No Treaty Made For The
 Fisheries.
EUROPE UNEASY OVER RUSSIA
ALL FRIENDS OF HOME PROGRESS

ALL FRIENDS OF HOME PROGRESS InvIted to Join in Forming a National Republican,; Ticket.
 WAsH1NeToN, Dec. 9.-The following call for the national Republican convention has
 been issued by the National Republican com mittee:
 To the Republican electors of the United States: In accordance with usage and obedient to the instructions of the Republican national convention of 1884 national convention of
 delegated representatives of the Republican party will be held at the city of Chicago, illinois, on Tuesday, the 18th day of June, 1888, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and
 vice president to be supported at the next
 national election and for the transacton of such
 other business as may be presented. Repub
 lican electors in the several States and
 voters, without regard to past political af-
 filiations, differences and action, who believe
 in the American principle of a protective
 tariff for the defense and development of
 home industries and the elevation of home labor; who would reduce the national taxes and prevent the accumulation of sur- plus in the treasury in harmony with this
 principle; who are opposed to the attempt now more openly avowed than ever before to establish policy which would strike down American labor to the level of the underpaid and oppressed labor of foreign lands; who favor system of naval and coast defenses which will enable the United States to con duct it's international negotiations with self respect; who gratefully cherish the de- lenders of the country; who condemn and resent the continued and unjust exclusion of rapidly growing territories which have an indisputable title to admis- sion into the sisterhood of States; who are in favor of free schools and popular educa- tion, free and honest ballot and fair count, the protection of every citizen of the United States in his legal right at home and abroad, foreign policy that shall extend our trade and commerce to every land and cline and shall properly support the dignity of the nation and the promotion of friendly and harmonious relations and intercourse be- tween all the States, are invited to unite under the call in the formation of national ticket.
 Each State will be entitled to four dele gates at large and for each representative at large two delegates, and each congressional district, each territory and the District of Columbia to two delegates. The delegates at large shall be chosen by popular State conventions called on not less than twenty days published notice and not less than thirty days before the meeting of the national convention. The congressional dis trict delegates shall be chosen in the same manner es the nomination of a member of Congress is made in said district. The terri torial delegates shall be.chosen in the same manner as the nomination of delegates in Congress is made. The delegates from the District of Columbia shall be chosen at con- vention constituted of members elected in primary district conventions held under the call and direction of the Republi- can central committee of said district. An alternate delegate for each delegate in the national convention to act in case of absence of the delegate shall be elected in the same manner and st the same time the delegate is elected. All notices of contests must be filed with the National committee in writing, accompanied by printed statements of the ground of contests, which shall be made public. Preference in the order of hearing and determining contests will be given by the convention in accordance with the dates of filing of such notices and statements with the National committee.